Basic HTML Website: Need To Include A Search Feature..

Hello,

I've made a really basic HTML website to sell a load of rare textbooks and novels to students in the UK.

I was going to list the books on alphabetical pages (O = Orwell, T=Twain etc) but I think it would be much easier to just have a search box which will search through my list of books and produce results on a single page.

Is there an easy, free way to do this?

Example:

User types in 'George Orwell' into search box on the front page.

They are directed to a new page which displays the results;

George Orwell - 1984 - In Stock
George Orwell - Animal Farm - In Stock
etc

and keep the style of the site.

Ideas and advice much appreciated..

Thanks,
Jay

 

You need PHP and a database. Throw all the books in a database, put a form on your page, and allow people to search for titles, authors, etc. You should also provide facilities which'll allow people to browse by category and author.

Sorry, I can't explain it in more detail right now. I have to run. Maybe someone else'll elaborate.

 

Hi,

I guess you could keep it simple and have an "A" page, a "B" page etc. where people can link to and search visually when they get there?

Good luck.

Mike

 

You can use Google search for your website.. and thus can make some money also.

 

Where are you storing the data? in case its a mysql database then you can use php as the frontend.
For a search, just a couple of mysql queries in php would do the trick for you.